Chapter 2: Building an application

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This chapter shows you the basics in building an application.

• Organization of the MIL modules
• • Similar MIL functions in different modules
  • • Processing and analysis modules
  • Interactive functionality
• Mandatory allocations: allocating an application context and its systems
• • MIL application context
  • MIL system
  • • Categories of MIL systems
    • Multiple systems
    • Remote systems
• Allocating, displaying, and annotating an image buffer
• • Allocating an image buffer
  • Displaying an image buffer
  • Annotating an image on display
• Grabbing images
• • Continuous grabbing and adjusting your camera
  • Sequential grabbing
  • An example
• Pixel and real-world units
• • Pixel units and the pixel coordinate system
  • World units and world coordinate systems
  • • Camera calibration
• Child buffers, regions of interest, and fixturing
• • Child buffers
  • Regions of interest
  • Fixturing an object with the relative coordinate system
• Dealing with color
• • Grabbing
  • • Mapping grabbed data through a LUT
  • Displaying
  • Managing color images
  • Color processing and analysis
  • • Converting color images to grayscale
    • Creating a child buffer from one of the three color bands
    • Copying one of the three color bands to a 1-band buffer
    • Color space conversion
• Working with 3D
• • 3D data containers and grabbing
  • Converting 3D data for processing and 3D display
  • Displaying 3D data
  • Processing 3D data
  • • Calibration
    • Storing the output of 3D functions
    • Regions of interest
    • Fixturing
• Using the defaults
• • Using the MILConfig utility to change your default settings
  • Using your defaults
• Error reporting
• Multiple systems
• MIL custom data types, void pointers, extensions, and portability functions
• • MIL custom data types
  • Void pointers
  • Strings and arrays
  • MIL directory constants
  • M_MIL_USE_SAFE_TYPE extension
  • Portability functions
• Combination values and macros
• • Combination values
  • Function-like macros
• Event handling in MIL with hook-handler functions
• • MIL hook-type functions
  • • Events and user data
    • Unhooking hook-handler functions
  • MIL hook information functions
• Porting a 32-bit MIL application to MIL 64-bit
• • Modified functions
  • • Retrieving a pointer to a modified function
  • Void pointers
  • • M_MIL_USE_SAFE_TYPE extension
  • Project processor definitions
• Working with files
• • Moving, sharing, and searching for files
  • • Additional functionality for DMIL
  • Importing and exporting data
• MIL file extension list
• MIL under Linux
• How to create a portable application
• MIL with .NET and Python
• • MIL with .NET
  • MIL with Python
• Using MIL add-on to Visual Studio
• • MIL menu and toolbar
  • F1 contextual help
  • Statement completion